With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie
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Wikiquote lists this sentence as misattributed to Nora Ephron and credits her sister Delia Ephron’s Funny Sauce (1986). This is an authorship correction, not evidence that Nora originated a version of it. Source and attribution evidence ↗
“With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie” — Delia Ephron
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Wikiquote lists this sentence as misattributed to Nora Ephron and credits her sister Delia Ephron’s Funny Sauce (1986). This is an authorship correction, not evidence that Nora originated a version of it.
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